PE4: Memory Problem

[Steve Grisetti]

What do you see when you browse to it?

[coolstuffiniowa]

all my projects are on K
as well as all my pix and everything - it is crammed.........

but if it is unplugged - why am I able to see it?

is it possible I somehow named K drive on the real hard drive - AND named K on the external hard drive?

if so - how do I correct this?

[coolstuffiniowa]

should I transfer everything off the K drive on to an external drive (drive L which is completely empty) that I know FER sure is not hooked up EXCEPT when I have it plugged in?

[Chuck Engels]

If you could get us a screen shot of the Disk Manager screen it might help.

Remember that Windows will change the drive letter of external drives when it needs to.
Especially if you don't plug the same drive into the exact same USB port every time.
Just because a external drive is K today doesn't mean when you plug it in tomorrow it will still be K.
The only guarantees are the physical internal drives, they should never change unless you change them.

It sounds like your C drive has multiple partitions, that may explain a few things.

To open Disk Management:
Start/Control Panel/Administrative Tools/Computer Management/Disk Management

If you could get a screen shot of that screen it may be of some help.

[John 'twosheds' McDonald]

all my projects are on K
as well as all my pix and everything - it is crammed.........

but if it is unplugged - why am I able to see it?

I think that Windows still keeps an 'entry' on the fact that there was a drive with a drive letter 'K' assigned. You have to tell Windows to de-mount the drive for the drive letter designation to be removed. (Like I said, I think that is the case but I am more than happy to be told I am wrong )

[coolstuffiniowa]

ummmm yeah -

so.........is this a real pain in the butt to do?

I am so tempted to get rid of EVERYTHING and start all over - getting rid of Vista -


anyway..........

in the next post I am going to type out everything I saw...........

cause I have no clue how to get a screen shot

that is how lame I am

[coolstuffiniowa]

Disk O Basic 465.76 GB online 47 MB Healthy EISA COnfiguration Recovery D 15.00 GB NTFS Healthy (Primary Partition)

OS (C:) 450.71 GB NTFS Healthy (System, Boot, Page File, Active, Crash Dump, Primary Partition)

Disk 1 Basic 698.64 GB Online New Volume (K:) 698.63 GB NTFS Healthy (Primary Partition)

Disk 2 Removable G No Media

Disk 3 Removable H No Media

Disk 4 Removable I No Media
Disk 5 Removable J No media



at the Top of the Page

underneath VOlume - it shows all the little pix of the hard drives

and
New Volume K
OS (C)
Recovery (D)


under Layout is has:

Simple
Simple
Simple
Simple

Under Type:

Basic
Basic
Basic
Basic

Under File System

Nothing (it is blank here in the first line)
NTFS
NTFS
NTFS

Status

Healty (EISA Config)
Healthy (Primary Partition)
Healthy (System, Boot, Page File, Active, Crash Dump, Primary Partition)
Healthy (Primary Partition)

Capacity

47 MB
698.63 GB
450.71 GB
15 GB

Free Space

47 MB
130.14 GB
380.14 GB
4.96 GB

%Free

100
19%
84%
33%

Fault Tolerance
No
No
No
No

Overhead
0%
0%
0%
0%


there ya go..............hoe I did not make that too confusing

[Chuck Engels]

Everyone starts somewhere, no one here is lame
Just people that have been there before.

When you have the screen open you can press the ALT + Print Screen keys, then open Word Pad and select Edit/Paste.
You will then have a Word Pad document you can save and attach to your post, that is a start.

If you have any questions about how to do something just ask

[coolstuffiniowa]

so it says that the extensionrtf is not allowed - what format do I save this in?

[Chuck Engels]

I will have to ask Ron to allow the extension to be attached, just hang in there

Ron, Can you allow .RTF and .DOC to be attached to a forum post?

[coolstuffiniowa]

ok - so it was not me this time!

thought we were gonna have to teach the newbie yet another thing

[Ron]

Ron, Can you allow .RTF and .DOC to be attached to a forum post?

.DOC was already allowed.

Done

[coolstuffiniowa]

.DOC is not one of the save options

the only thing I can save is:

RTF
Text Document

Text Document - MS DOS Format

Unicode Text Doc

on these others it says the format will be lost when I save it.............

so - how do I post a screen capture for everyone to see?

[Chuck Engels]

I think Ron probably added the RTF extension now, try it again

[coolstuffiniowa]

trying again

now file is too big max allowed is 2MiB